Issue 746 Table of Contents, March 2023

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TABLE of CONTENTS
March 2023 • Issue 746 • Vol. 90 • No. 3

55th Year of Publication • 30-Time Hugo Winner
Cover and interview art and design by Francesca Myman

INTERVIEWS
Nisi Shawl: Story Space / 8
Ayize Jama-Everett: Against Entropy / 24

MAIN STORIES / 4

PRH CEO McIntosh Steps Down • Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot • Jimenez Wins Crawford • HarperCollins Contract and Layoffs

THE DATA FILE / 5

Tor’s New Romance Imprint • 2023 Dell Award Winners • ALA Awards • Butler Awards and NBWC Symposium • WFA Judges Change • Monteleone Expelled from HWA • Publishers Increase Pay • Android Jones Fire • PEN America Longlists • PEN/Faulkner Longlist • Compton Crook Award Finalists • Splatterpunk Awards Nominees • Pérez Literary Launched • HWA Summer Scares • Announcements • Bookstore News • Awards News • Financial News

PEOPLE & PUBLISHING / 6

Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Gregory Benford, Walter Mosley, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Michael Moorcock, N.K. Jemisin, and many others

SPECIAL FEATURES

Commentary: Cory Doctorow: End to End / 23 Photo Story: Galactic Philadelphia Relaunch / 59

FORTHCOMING BOOKS / 26 LISTINGS

Magazines Received: January / 41 Books Received: January / 42 Bestsellers / 54 New & Notable / 55

OBITUARIES / 62

Ray Nelson Paul La Farge Cai Emmons

EDITORIAL MATTERS / 63

East Coast Travels • Chickens • This Issue/Next Issue

LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS

Short Fiction Reviews by KAREN BURNHAM / 11
Analog 1-2/23; Clarkesworld 1/23; Metaphorosis 2/23; Solarpunk 1-2/23.

Short Fiction Reviews by CHARLES PAYSEUR / 12
Zooscape 12/22; Anathema 12/22; Escape Pod 12/15/22, 12/22/22, 12/29/22; Worlds of Possibility 12/22; Baffling 1/23; Strange Horizons 12/12/22, 12/19/22, 1/2/23, 1/9/23; Diabolical Plots 1/23; Fiyah Winter ’23; Kaleidotrope 1/23; GigaNotoSaurus 11/22; Fantasy 1/23; Lightspeed 1/23; Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/1/23, 1/12/23, 1/26/23.

Reviews by GARY K. WOLFE / 14
The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Volume I: Lila the Werewolf and Other Stories, Peter S. Beagle; The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Volume II: Oakland Dragon Blues and Other Stories, Peter S. Beagle; The Best of Catherynne M. Valente: Volume One, Catherynne M. Valente; Lost Places, Sarah Pinsker; Feed Them Silence, Lee Mandelo.

Reviews by CAREN GUSSOFF SUMPTION / 16
Karma of the Sun, Brandon Ying Kit Boey; Loki’s Ring, Stina Leicht.

Reviews by COLLEEN MONDOR / 17
Fraternity, Andy Mientus; Dream to Me, Megan Paasch; Lost in the Moment and Found, Seanan McGuire.

Reviews by IAN MOND / 18
Hopeland, Ian McDonald; The Thing in the Snow, Sean Adams; Evil Flowers: Stories, Gunnhild Øyehaug.

Reviews by GABINO IGLESIAS / 19
Sister, Maiden, Monster, Lucy A. Snyder; Tell Me I’m Worthless, Alison Rumfitt; Daphne, Josh Malerman.

Reviews by ALEXANDRA PIERCE / 20
Scale, Greg Egan; Some Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh.

Reviews by Divers Hands:
EUGEN BACON, ALEX BROWN, RUSSELL LETSON, ARCHITA MITTRA / 21

New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Nisi Shawl ed.; She Is a Haunting, Trang Thanh Tran; Sleep and the Soul, Greg Egan; Pomegranates, Priya Sharma.

TERRY BISSON: This Month in History / 11, 13, 17, 19


Magazines reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)

Analog 1-2/23 (Karen Burnham)
Clarkesworld
1/23 (Karen Burnham)
Metaphorosis
2/23 (Karen Burnham)
Solarpunk
1-2/23 (Karen Burnham)
Zooscape
12/22 (Charles Payseur)
Anathema
12/22 (Charles Payseur)
Escape Pod
12/15/22, 12/22/22, 12/29/22 (Charles Payseur)
Worlds of Possibility
12/22 (Charles Payseur)
Baffling
1/23 (Charles Payseur)
Strange Horizons
12/12/22, 12/19/22, 1/2/23, 1/9/23 (Charles Payseur)
Diabolical Plots
1/23 (Charles Payseur)
Fiyah Winter
’23 (Charles Payseur)
Kaleidotrope
1/23 (Charles Payseur)
GigaNotoSaurus
11/22 (Charles Payseur)
Fantasy
1/23 (Charles Payseur)
Lightspeed
1/23 (Charles Payseur)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
1/1/23, 1/12/23, 1/26/23 (Charles Payseur)


Books reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)

Adams, Sean • The Thing in the Snow (Ian Mond)
Beagle, Peter S. • The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Volume 1: Lila the Werewolf and Other Stories (Gary K. Wolfe)
Beagle, Peter S. • The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Volume 2: Oakland Dragon Blues and Other Stories (Gary K. Wolfe)
Boey, Brandon Ying Kit • Karma of the Sun (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Egan, Greg • Scale (Alexandra Pierce)
Egan, Greg • Sleep and the Soul (Russell Letson)
Leicht, Stina • Loki’s Ring (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Malerman, Josh • Daphne (Gabino Iglesias)
Mandelo, Lee • Feed Them Silence (Gary K. Wolfe)
McDonald, Ian • Hopeland (Ian Mond)
Mcguire, Seanan • Lost in the Moment and Found (Colleen Mondor)
Mientus, Andy • Fraternity (Colleen Mondor)
Øyehaug, Gunnhild • Evil Flowers: Stories (Ian Mond)
Paasch, Megan • Dream to Me (Colleen Mondor)
Pinsker, Sarah • Lost Places (Gary K. Wolfe)
Rumfitt, Alison • Tell Me I’m Worthless (Gabino Iglesias)
Sharma, Priya • Pomegranates (Archita Mittra)
Shawl, Nisi, ed. • New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color (Eugen Bacon)
Snyder, Lucy A. • Sister, Maiden, Monster (Gabino Iglesias)
Tesh, Emily • Some Desperate Glory (Alexandra Pierce)
Tran, Trang Thanh • She Is a Haunting (Alex Brown)
Valente, Catherynne M. • The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One (Gary K. Wolfe)

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